Federal government spends more when it should be cutting back

When a company is bankrupt, it cuts spending and cuts pay and benefits. When the federal government is bankrupt, it spends more and gives raises.

All federal employees, including members of Congress, should have their wages cut by 10 percent and should be required to pay 20 percent of their health care benefits. They are our employees, and we should demand it.

Instead, they are going after Social Security, from which past Congresses stole $3 trillion, and Medicare. Only in Congress can you steal and not go to jail.

We must also insist that if the retirement age is raised to 69 for eligibility purposes, no federal employee will receive a pension until the age of 69.